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Specialists in heating
& cooling systems and
equipment for highly
corrosive liquids…
external heating
systems
tank heaters
Liberta House · Sandhurst · Berkshire · GU47 8JR · England
Telephone: +44 (0) 1252 876123 • Facsimile: +44 (0) 1252 875281
www. b r a u d e . c o . u k • s a l e s@b r a u d e . c o . u k
Installed
by steel
processors
worldwide
Tank
and vessel
heaters for
pickling
A second life for your equipment!
As a one-stop integrated supplier, Gauder
Group has developed an after-sales
strategy based on worldwide service pre-
sence. With more than 30 years’ experience
in buying and selling second-hand wire and
cable equipment, Gauder SA is the ideal
partner for individual machines or com-
plete plant re-building. A high performance
workshop enables reconditioning of the
machine and restores its productivity and
product quality.
Based on this knowledge and the large
stock of more than 1,000 immediately
available machines, complete solutions are
proposed: production lines can be inspected, tested, reconditioned, modified or
modernised. The group proposes a unique approach of combined lines with
reconditioned and new items thanks to the synergy with Setic and Pourtier –
Gauder Group rotating machines.
Gauder Group – Belgium Fax: +32 4367 8798
Email : Website:
Example from rebuilding to up-
grading: CARB bearings on double
twist machines and quick change
brushes holder on slip rings
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The occasional news account of the
dismantling of a huge steel plant in
one country and its reassembly in
another makes fascinating reading.
The sheer size of the factory;
the logistical nightmare of its
disassembly, packing, marking, and
preparation for transport; the length
and expense of the sea voyage to
its new locale: taken together, these
comprise enough of a challenge to
comprehension. We have to take it
on faith that such an undertaking
makes economic sense.
The smaller-scale commerce in
rebuilt and reconditioned wire and
cable making machinery imposes
no such strain on the imagination.
Nor is there any mystery about the
fiscal sense of such transactions.
A company seeking to increase
profitability without having to make
a big capital investment buys
refurbished units at a fraction of
the cost of new ones. Another
company, considering an entry into
a promising new niche market, will
test its idea with an economical
year’s lease of some rebuilt
equipment. Yet another company,
having outgrown some of its own
serviceable machinery, sells it on
the resale market and applies the
purchaser’s cheque toward a new
state-of-the-art installation.
Necessity is still the mother of
invention. In periods of economic
uncertainty it becomes, as well, the
mother of re-invention. Access to
quality rebuilt and reconditioned
equipment has helped many a
company to keep operating costs in
check until things look up.
Moreover, in our increasingly
ecology-minded era, it might be
asserted that the utilisation of
rebuilt and reconditioned machinery
is more than merely expedient: it’s
positively virtuous.